Don't Give Up Until You're Dead

 I can never really stick to resolutions. Especially ones that require a dramatic lifestyle change. Nobody wants to do anything like that in the post-Christmas funk that is January and I am no exception to that rule. Still, I always make some. Last year's were to make time for myself (by way of my Cineworld unlimited card) and.... be more organised I think. Neither of which I have been particularly great at, seeing as I started university and couldn't use (or really afford) the cinema card anymore, and organised? Well let's just say I still haven't completed my 2011/12 tax return which has to be done by the end of this month. Crap. This year they are as follows: FINISH the fanfic I started writing. I'm great at getting them started. Not so great at finishing.  DO NOT GET ANY MORE BOOKS until my to-read shelf (and to-read folder on Kindle) are both empty! Get a good mark on my first year at Uni. Try not to get sucked into fandom nonsense. Think before I speak...

 So, I was just reading through Tumblr - as you do - and I came across a reply that someone had written to a question they had been asked. I read their answer, but I didn't agree with it. It's one that can have many opinions by the way, but I wanted to make my own reply without it looking like I was jumping on theirs. So I'm doing it here. The question she was asked was: worst noel fisher character (morally etc.?)/worst noel fisher character you've actually felt sympathy for?/nicest n.f. character? Noel's worst/most morally wrong character:  The person in question chose Dale Stuckey. Stuckey, for me, was, let's say, overenthusiastic? I don't think he started out with any intention of killing anyone. He was trying to do his job in the best way he knew how (which, okay, wasn't very good) and kept being literally put down and humiliated in front of anyone until he flipped. His morals were misguided but I don't think Stuckey was ever truly evil - he ...

 **SPOILERS**  Marc Webb & Curt Connors explain the end-credits scene Speculation abounds about who the "man" is in the end credits of this summer's The Amazing Spider-Man. Here's my take on who it is: It's Electro, people!! Now, the first time I saw that end scene, two things stuck in my mind. One, the fact that he appeared and disappeared from Dr. Connors' cell without going anywhere near the door (he appears by the windows in the shadows and at the end of the scene, the camera pans up to the ceiling and we see that he has not moved, but is gone on the right of the shot, and the door is visible to the left) and two: he is fiddling with a hat (a bowler?) in his hands. I'm still not sure if this is relevant or not, but there was a lot of focus on it. The voice/actor are not important at this point, otherwise they would not have named him in the credits - thus avoiding further speculation and questioning the actor! What IS important, I believe is ...

 So I don't know what made me think about them earlier today, but I've decided to get my Sims out again. I was going to play TS2 (that's The Sims 2) as I'm much more familiar with the gameplay and have all the expansions, but I think I want to do my Marvel legacy - either continue it or restart it - and I can create better characters with TS3 so I'm going to use that instead. For an example:  http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=104007&asset_type=story&user_id=1460272 I somehow remembered my passwords though for my old logins to the TS2 official site where I used to upload my Sims Stories (basically comics with Sims!) and now I'm reminiscing! So much fun!

 There are days when you realise that the people you surround yourself with are not the people you thought they were. I expect that perhaps they are looking at me and probably thinking the same thing, but as I said, there are days when that happens, and it doesn't just happen to me. Over the past year, I have grown to love a lot of people. Got to know them, made friends with, even travelled thousands of miles to meet them. And all the while it seems there was a Judas Iscariot among them and yesterday I was in the Garden of Gethsemane getting kissed. Not just me. One of my best friends too, who now doesn't seem to know what to say to me because she is so completely despondent at how we've both been treated and we're thousands of miles apart with absolutely no clue what the hell is going on. Something so unprecedented happened we were both left stunned. One minute everything was situation normal and the next, it was completely FUBAR for no apparent reason. I suppose w...

  *Disclaimer for generalisations and stereotypes in this post. I think I'm a fairly techno-savvy person. I can work an iPhone and a laptop and my Sky+ and most electrical devices that I have in my household. (If you have pervy comments at this point - keep them to yourself please!!) For a woman, I think I am quite a typical "bloke" with this kind of stuff though, I have to admit. In that I'll get something out of its box and plough on in there without reading instructions first, usually because I'm excited about my new appliance and I just want to get it working! There, however, is where the similarity ends. If said appliance is not working how it is supposed to, I will put it down and read the instructions at this point, rather than keep pressing buttons /touching screens until it appears to be working. Because, you know, a guy can make it work. Whereas I don't want to fuck it up. (Although I am  one of those people who keeps frantically clicking the mous...

So I did my 2011 round-up post. Now to look forward into 2012. Just a quick side FYI - I will be saying "two thousand and twelve." Maybe at a push, I might  drop the "and" but I will NOT be saying "twenty twelve" even if we have been saying "nineteen..." whatever for the last thousand years. Just... no. Anyway, on with the post... things I've got to look forward to. Holidays. I've got a couple lined up this year: The first is yet another trip to the States, but this time, there is no Twilight involved, unless by complete accident. The point is, I'm not going for a convention or anything. Just going over there for a week to stay with some great friends and have fun in Chicago and New York. I cannot wait. (There is another thing included in this that I am very much looking forward to, but that will come under a second heading.) Second holiday is a family cruise around the Baltic with S, P and H, my parents and my aunt. Will be ...